Bird : exploring the winged world
(Book)

Select artists include: Eleazar and Elizabeth Albin ; John James Audubon ; Jacques Barraband ; Ferdinand Bauer ; Pierre Belon ; Pieter Boel ; Jakob Bogdány ; Mark Catesby ; Raymond Harris Ching ; William T. Cooper ; Carl Cotton ; Mark Dion ; Max Ernst ; Walton Ford ; Georg Forster ; Louis Agassiz Fuertes ; Conrad Gessner ; John and Elizabeth Gould ; Melissa Groo ; Ernst Haeckel ; Oskar and Magdalena Heinroth ; Melchior d'Hondecoeter ; Huang Quan ; Carsten Höller ; Frank Hurley ; Ito Jakuchu ; Martin Johnson Heade ; Genevieve Jones ; John Gerrard Keulemans ; Frans Lanting ; François Levaillant ; Edward Lear ; Bruno Liljefors ; Ustad Mansur ; Étienne-Jules Marey ; Maria Sibylla Merian ; Adolph Millot ; Jean-Baptiste Oudry ; Sydney Parkinson ; Roger Tory Peterson ; Rathika Ramasamy ; Roelandt Savery ; Sir Peter Scott ; Albertus Seba ; Prideaux John Selby ; Shen Quan ; David Allen Sibley ; Frans Snyders ; Sarah Stone ; Hiroshi Sugimoto ; Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe ; Alexander Wilson ; Edward Wilson ; Francis Willughby and John Ray ; Shaik Zain al-Din.

Includes bibliographical references (page 345) and index.

This survey of birds, chronicling their scientific and popular appeal throughout the ages and around the world, showcases the remarkable diversity of species in the avian kingdom, from tiny hummingbirds to ostriches taller than humans, and icebound penguins to tropical macaws. With its content curated alongside an international panel of ornithologists, art historians, wildlife photographers, conservationists, and curators, this extraordinary book includes illustrations and artwork of all styles, with works by a diverse and often surprising range of creators from many different backgrounds, including: John James Audubon; Robert Clark; Mark Dion; Charley Harper; Barbara Kruger; Edward Lear; Ustad Mansur; John Ruskin; Joel Sartore; Sarah Stone; and Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe. Arranged in thoughtfully paired juxtapositions, it reveals how artists, illustrators, ornithologists, and photographers - from ancient Egypt to the present - have captured the spirit, likeness, character, and symbolism of birds. Including Tweety pie paired with the Twitter bird; birds as 300-foot desert carvings or 2-inch-tall ivory statuettes; bird bones, bird bank notes, sculptures and birds shaped as beds, the book's three hundred visually stunning entries span four thousand years of fine art, photography, ornithological drawings, popular culture, and scientific discovery from all corners of the globe to create the ultimate celebration of the winged world.